| | Phil, looking for a freebee: "Ed, has the full scholarship for the Naked Dancer And Elvis Impersonator been filled?" Phil, I'm not optimistic about your getting the Naked Dancer scholarship. If I'm not mistaken, Pink Snow has that one locked up, although I'm sure it wasn't for want of applicants, as nakedness is no stranger to Objectivism.
There was a whole contingent of naked Objectivists at the Thomas Jefferson School Conference back in 1985, no doubt taking their cue from Howard Roark and, dare I say, Leonard Peikoff, who declared that, unlike the Christians, we should have no objection to public nudity, for we are the spiritual successors of the ancient Greeks, who view the human body not as a source of shame but as an object of reverence.
The site of this grand unveiling was Black's Beach, a stone's throw from U.C. San Diego, where the conference was being held. I ought to know, I was there, and, shorn of my proper attire, felt "as free as a barn swallow" (if you remember the Washington Mutual commercial). Of course, I was enticed there by the prospect of seeing one of the conference attendees (or at least her natural endowments!).
Sadly, it was the last time I would see George Walsh, who was the only speaker to take Peikoff's recommendation seriously. (Even Peikoff didn't adhere it, as he was there under cover of swimsuit. Easier to preach the gospel of shameless nudity than to practice it.) I must say, however, that having witnessed le Objectivist au naturale, I think that, with certain exceptions, I prefer the artificial version -- you know, the one with all of those wonderful "man-made" garments that leave something to the imagination?
So, Phil, don't get any ideas! Perhaps the Elvis Impersonator scholarship is still open.
- Bill
(Edited by William Dwyer
on 6/30, 1:34pm)
(Edited by William Dwyer
on 6/30, 1:37pm)
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